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...Swimming Association frosted the idea, Linda added a red one-piecer to her attire and plunged in. She lost her goggles three-quarters of the way to England, then stumbled on the rocks at the finish and badly gashed herself above the left breast. But her time of 9 hr. 59 min. broke the women's record by 25 min. (and was 4 hr. 32 min. faster than Gertrude Ederle's unprecedented swim in 1926), and she missed the men's mark by only...
...Boston homecoming. Yaz drove in all three Sox runs in the seventh inning with a towering blast over the flagpole in left-center. The homer was Yastrzemski's 43rd of the season--tieing Ted Williams' club record for a left-hander--and boosted Yastrzemski's league totals in HR's and RBI's in his bid for the American League Triple Crown. He also hit a double in three official at-bats to raise his season average...
...Russia is building 39,000 miles of two-and four-lane paved roads-punctuated by 40 new motels. Formerly closed cities are being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with a $1,000,000-a-year advertising budget abroad...
...team that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Then, in an 89-game, 3 ½-hr, marathon that ranks among the longest in Wimbledon history, Texas' crew cut Cliff Richey outlasted Australia...
...time that of the 91 ships starting, one sank, nine were demasted, and another 26 turned back. The Lancetilla came in first in its second division and ahead of all but four of the first-division boats, winning the coveted Blue Water Bowl with a corrected time of 72 hr. 27 min. 28 sec. Said one of Cameron's exultant colleagues: "Does Chichester need a bosun on his next voyage...